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Alan Davis
Alan Davis (born 1956) is an English comic book artist and writer from Corby, England, known for Captain Britain, Excalibur, The Uncanny X-Men, and the Eisner Award-winning JLA: The Nail.
Alan Fletcher
Alan Gerard Fletcher (1931–2006) was a British graphic designer, born in Nairobi, who co-founded Fletcher/Forbes/Gill and Pentagram and designed the Reuters and V&A logos, later writing The Art of Looking Sideways.
Albarello
An albarello is a ceramic storage jar with a concave waist, best known as the apothecary drug jar of the Islamic world and Renaissance Italy.
Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), German-American landscape painter of the Hudson River and Rocky Mountain schools, trained in Düsseldorf, painted monumental Yosemite and Rocky Mountain vistas after western survey trips from 1859, and set a $7.32M auction record in 2008.
Albert Namatjira
Albert Namatjira, born Elea, was a Western Arrernte Aboriginal artist from Central Australia. He is famous for his Western-style watercolor landscapes and founded the Hermannsburg School of painting.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917), American visionary painter of New Bedford and New York, known for small moonlit seascapes and literary subjects, Society of American Artists co-founder, Armory Show exhibitor, and victim of widespread forgery.
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897–1966) was a German photographer and leading exponent of Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity, whose 1928 photobook Die Welt ist schön became one of the most influential photography books ever published.
Alberto Burri
Alberto Burri (1915–1995) was an Italian painter, trained as a doctor, who made pictures from burlap sacks, tar, burned wood, and melted plastic rather than paint.
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), Swiss sculptor, painter, and draughtsman of the tall slender postwar figures; Surrealist 1931–1935, associated with Sartre's existentialism, Venice Biennale 1962 grand prize for sculpture.
Alberto Korda
Alberto Korda (Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, 1928-2001), Cuban photographer famous for the 1960 Guerrillero Heroico portrait of Che Guevara; Castro's personal photographer for about ten years and Cuba's first fashion photographer.
Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas (Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez, 1896–1982), Peruvian-born American pin-up illustrator of the Varga Girls and Vargas Girls, worked for Esquire during World War II and later Playboy, using watercolor and airbrush.
Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538) was a German painter, printmaker, and architect of the Northern Renaissance active in Regensburg, a leading figure of the Danube School.
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), Nuremberg painter, printmaker, and theorist; master of woodcut and engraving (Apocalypse, Melencolia I); first Renaissance artist known firsthand across Europe.
Album leaf
An album leaf (册页, cè yè) is a small Chinese painting or calligraphy mounted as a page in a book-like album, flourishing in the Ming and Qing.
Album of Flowers, Birds, and Insects
Album of Flowers, Birds, and Insects (花鸟草虫册) is a Chinese album format of close-up studies of flowers, birds, and insects, brought to classical form by painter Yun Shouping.
Album of Genre Paintings
The Album of Genre Paintings (Danwon pungsokdocheop) is a set of 25 genre paintings by Joseon painter Kim Hongdo, held in Seoul and designated a Treasure.
Album of Genre Paintings by Sin Yun-bok
Hyewon Pungsokdo (혜원풍속도), fully Hyewon jeonsin cheop, is a 30-leaf album of late Joseon genre paintings by Shin Yun-bok, held at the Kansong Art Museum and designated National Treasure No. 135.
Albumen print
The albumen print is a photographic printing process introduced in 1850 by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, using egg-white-coated paper sensitized with silver nitrate; it dominated printing from the 1850s to the 1890s.
Alchi murals
The Alchi Monastery murals are Buddhist wall paintings in Alchi, a village in western Ladakh, India, painted mainly from the 11th to 13th centuries in the Kashmiri tradition.
Alchi Sumtsek
The Alchi Sumtsek (གསུམ་བརྩེགས, "three-storeyed") is a three-storey temple in the Alchi Choskhor complex in Ladakh, India, celebrated for its Kashmiri-style murals and clay sculpture.
Aldobrandini Wedding
The Aldobrandini Wedding (Le Nozze Aldobrandini) is an ancient Roman fresco in the Vatican Museums, found on the Esquiline Hill in 1601 and painted in the Augustan age.
Ale Felege Selam
Ale Felege Selam, born Ale Felege Selam Heruy (Amharic: አለ ፈለገ ሰላም), was an Ethiopian painter who founded the Addis Ababa Fine Arts School in 1957.
Alec Monopoly
Alec Monopoly (Alec Andon) is an American street artist famous for painting the Monopoly Man, Rich Uncle Pennybags; New York-born, LA-based since 2006, shown at Art Basel Miami and MOCA Bangkok, with auction results up to US$193,500.
Alec Soth
Alec Soth, born 1969, is an American photographer based in Minneapolis, known for lyrical large-format portraits and landscapes and for his 2004 book Sleeping by the Mississippi.
Aleksander Gierymski
Aleksander Gierymski, full name Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski, was a Polish painter of Realism and a precursor of Impressionism, born in Warsaw in 1850 and died in Rome in 1901.
Alele Museum & Public Library
Alele Museum & Public Library in Uliga, Majuro is the national museum, only public library, and national archives of the Marshall Islands, holding stick charts, the deBrum collection, nuclear-test records, and about 21,351 artefacts.
Alessandra Alores
Alessandra Alores (Алессандра Алорес), born 1984 in Kyiv as Alexandra Vodjanikova, is a German model and beauty queen: Miss Deutschland 2003, Top Model of the World 2008, and Miss World Deutschland 2009, disqualified from Miss World 2009.
Alessandra Ambrosio
Alessandra Ambrosio (Alessandra Corine Ambrósio, born 1981, Erechim, Brazil) is a Brazilian model and actress, a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2004 to 2017 who debuted on its runway in 2000, wore the Fantasy Bra in 2012 and 2014, and returned to mark her 20th show in 2026.
Alessandro Algardi
Alessandro Algardi (1598–1654) was an Italian Baroque sculptor, architect, and designer from Bologna who led the classicist current against Bernini in Rome, becoming papal sculptor under Innocent X.
Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini (1931–2019) was an Italian architect and designer, a central figure of Italian Radical Design, known for the Proust armchair, the Anna G. corkscrew, and the Groninger Museum.